Mister Rogers Lego prototype a tribute to his “deep spiritual resonance”
United StatesRNS When Matt Smith introduced his toddler to television in 2022, he selected the show that brought him warmth and comfort when he was growing up in the 1990s: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Now, the long-running children’s show that once graced the screens of more than 3.5 million televisions a week could again become a […]
Joanne Rogers, widow of ‘Mr Rogers,’ dead at age 92
RNS Joanne Rogers, the widow of the star of the children’s programme Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, died at the age of 92 on Thursday. “Fred Rogers Productions is deeply saddened by the passing of Joanne Rogers,” the organisation whose board she chaired after the death of Fred Rogers in 2003, announced Thursday on Twitter. Joanne Rogers. Photo by […]
Tom Hanks, Joanne Rogers to raise money to rebuild Tree of Life Synagogue site
RNS The Jewish congregation that once gathered in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood is inching forward with a plan to repurpose its building, two years after an attacker shot and killed 11 Jews in an anti-Semitic rampage. On Wednesday, the congregation named a raft of celebrities who have signed on […]
THE INTERVIEW: JOANNE ROGERS SPEAKS ON HER HUSBAND FRED ROGER’S COMMITMENT TO PRAYER, CHURCH AND CHILDREN
ADELLE M BANKS speaks with Joanne Rogers, widow of iconic US children’s TV identity, Fred Rogers, about her husband’s faith and the new film to be released this month starring Tom Hanks as her husband and Maryann Plunkett as herself…
FILM: THE SURPRISING SUCCESS – AND FAITH – OF ‘WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?’
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports that, perhaps more surprising than the success of documentary film ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ – which tells the story of iconic US children’s show, ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood’ – is the quiet presence of the late Fred Rogers’ Christian faith…